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VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM, Auguste, comte de.

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The future Eve. Paris, de Brunhoff, 1886. In-12 (182 x 115 mm) of 2 ff.n.ch. III, 379 pp.; plum half sorrow, smooth ornate back, preserved cover, golden head (L. Bonleu). Clouzot, 277; Fléty, 28. original edition. One of the founding works of science fiction. "A work closely linked to the Cruel Tales and, like them, inspired by absolute metaphysical idealism, it is by far one of the author's best stories, among the most curious and suggestive, although he failed in his ambition to give life to a creation of Faustian inspiration" (Laffont-Bompiani). Very good copy.

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